Air Force General Rene Barrientos is a swinger who flies his own DC-3, likes the girls so much that until very recently he maintained two families at once. Barrientos also has the kind of charisma ...

Now that it is all over, Bolivian President René Barrientos finds himself in the unusual position of being somewhat thankful for the guerrilla uprising led by Che Guevara and his Cubans. The ...

René Barrientos, 45, the air force general who bosses Bolivia’s revolutionary junta, is a sort of Steve Canyon of the Andes — handsome, dashing, and almost too lucky to be true. Since 1962, he has ...

The Air Force was testing a new aircraft—a snappy little twin-engined Helio Courier light plane—and naturally, there was only one pilot for the job. Grinning broadly,. Air, Force General René ...

“Bolivia was like a two-horse cart headed for a precipice before my November revolution,” says Air Force General René Barrientos. One of the horses was President Victor Paz Estenssoro, “and we got rid ...

Plotting against the government has long been a national sport in Bolivia. And denouncing subversive plots—real or imagined—is the government’s favorite way of knocking off political enemies. Last ...

It was a classic Bolivian happening, part brute force and part black magic, asking more questions than it answered! A sea of gold braid, army olive and air-force blue swept silently out of the ...

Though two of Latin America’s biggest nations — Argentina and Brazil —are under stiff military dictatorship, the rest of Latin America is generally going its constitutional way. Last week three ...